Japanese seized American ship President Harrison according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 8 January 1942

An item referred to the British Admiralty at London reporting that the Japanese seized on 8 December the American ship President Harrison in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China. Yje J.I.C. commented she was underway to North China to evacuate the US marines stationed at Tientsin and Peking.

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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 29 dated 8 January 1942